October 2026 · This month's classic

Dracula

Bram Stoker · first published 1897 · Gothic

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A novel assembled from letters, journals, telegrams, and one very bad houseguest.

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Expected mailing date: October 25, 2026.

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Publisher's yellow cloth cover, first edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker, Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster, 1897 — Publisher's yellow cloth cover, first edition; Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster, 1897. British Library Board, made available via Wikimedia Commons. Source · Public Domain Mark 1.0; faithful reproduction of a public-domain original

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Why this classic still matters

A short, spoiler-conscious introduction

Stoker's book is a scrapbook — its dread comes from ordinary people writing things down. It is also the reason nearly every later vampire behaves the way it does.

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights.”
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Source: Dracula, first edition, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897 — public domain

A historical curiosity

Stoker's working notes show the count was originally to be named Count Wampyr; he found "Dracula" while reading about Wallachian history.

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